The picture consists of several novellas, which, according to their authors, should shed some light on that vague question, which torments any of us at different stages of our existence - "what is the meaning of life?".

Carefree and happy was the life of lawyer Dan Gallagher with his young wife Beth and young daughter until the fateful day when the wife and child went out of town to her parents. Feeling a fleeting attraction to Alex Forrest - a new employee of the firm he serves, he was flattered by the lady's reciprocity and had an affair with her.

By the end of the second day Dan wanted to return to his family hearth, but it turned out that now he was caught in the dead grip of a real maniac. First she slit her wrists, and panic-stricken Dan had to bandage her hands and comfort her. And when Dan managed to escape from Alex to his home, his life turned into a real nightmare.

Mitch, a young genius, enters university at the age of 15. His roommate turns out to be another young talent, Chris Knight, the leader of a company of the university's most capable students.

As part of a research project by one of the professors, the boys develop a high-powered laser, but the professor steals it to sell to the military for use as a weapon. The students hack into the laser's control mechanism and foil the professor's plans....

The story of the life and creative path of the king of rock 'n' roll Elvis Presley through the prism of a complex relationship with his odious manager, Colonel Tom Parker. They worked together for more than 20 years, from the beginning of Elvis' career to his unprecedented fame.

In September 1967, Private Chris Taylor of the 25th Infantry Regiment arrived somewhere in the border region between Vietnam and Cambodia. Arrived to see for himself what true hell looks like. Not an otherworldly, fictional hell created by writers or artists, but a natural, quite earthly hell, where Sgt. Bob Barnes and Sgt. Elias Grodin clashed with each other. They too thought they would be fighting Viet Cong guerrillas, but it turned out that sometimes you have to fight your own.

Four teenagers and one little boy, Joey, decide to spend the night on a carnival train - a ghost at the fairgrounds. They had no idea that the disfigured son of the carousel operator had gone into a rage because the fortune teller refused to give him his money back and killed her. The teenagers became unwitting witnesses to the murder and soon realized with horror that they had very little to live for....

The crisis that erupted on the sandy neutral-zone planet Nimbus III would seem to be just another act of self-declaration by a local rebellion wanting only to attract the Federation's attention - but not this time.

Now the rebels have a leader, a native of the planet Vulcan named Sybok, who possesses parapsychological abilities that are remarkable even by Vulcan standards - all it takes is a brief interaction to make a human or other alien feel a sense of undivided trust in him.

Saibok declares himself the new messiah and is going to go in search of - who do you think? - God! The Enterprise and its crew will be forced to carry out the mission, for even Spock, one of the few who has not succumbed to compulsion, cannot raise a hand against his... own brother.

Their journey lies to the center of the galaxy, beyond The Great Barrier, to the mysterious planet Sha Ka Ree, where, according to ancient books, the Great Creator himself awaits them in all his majesty. But will they find what they believe in, what they wish to find, or will the myth remain a myth forever? All the answers are on Sha Ka Ree.

The Enterprise's most amazing journey begins....

With the explosion of Praxis, one of Kronos' moons, destroying almost all of the Klingons' livelihoods, the standoff between the Federation and the Klingon Empire is over. It was time for peace talks, but as it turned out, not everyone wanted peace - some were satisfied with the ongoing war.
Kirk and his loyal crew, already "retired", receive a secret assignment to conduct the first, preparatory round of peace talks with the Chancellor of the Klingon Empire. But the unexpected happens - the Klingon ship is attacked, the Chancellor is killed, the negotiations are disrupted, and the Enterprise, specifically Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy, are blamed for this atrocity.
While the Federation higher-ups ponder how to proceed, a Klingon court sentences them to imprisonment on a segregated, ice-covered asteroid. But they don't give up hope - because they're Starfleet officers, and because Kirk has a mission - he guessed long ago that this is a plot to derail the peace talks, and gradually he begins to uncover it.
Meanwhile, the Enterprise, under Spock's command, is secretly flying to their rescue...